Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Suburban baths
1
Temple of Venus
3
Temple of Apollo
4
Basilica
5
Forum
6
Building of Eumachia
8
Macellum
11
Temple of Jupiter
12
Forum Granary
13
Mensa Ponderaria
14
Forum baths
15
House of Meleager
20
House of Apollo
21
House of Pansa
23
House of Sallustio
25
Villa of Diomedes
29
Castellum Aquae
32
Central Baths
35
Bakery
38
Lupanare
39
Stabian Baths
40
Triangular Forum
41
Doric Temple
42
Great Theatre
43
Small Theatre
45
Temple of Isis
47
Samnite Palaestra
48
House of Menander
51
Fullonica of Stephanus
52
Amphitheater
60
Great Palaestra
61
Porta Nocera
63
Thermopolium
68
Memorial Arches
69
Glossary
compluvium: opening in the
center of the roof of the
atrium in the house, which
conveyed water into the
impluvium*
decurion: member of the city
Senate, usually a former
administrator
duumvirs: the city's
administrators and highest
judges, two of whom were
elected every year, and who
subsequently became
members of the city senate
exedra: an extension of the
apse used as a room for
sitting and conversing
first style: painted wall
decoration (3rd cent. BC early 1st cent. BC), also
known as structural, which
imitates a wall in opus
quadratum* or covered with
marble slabs
fourth style: painted wall
decoration (second half of the
1st cent. AD), also known as
fantastic, which expands the
architectural imagination of
the second style* and the
decorative tone of the third
style*
impluvium: a low basin in
the center of a household
atrium, into which rainwater
flowed down from the roof
through the compluvium*
Isis: Egyptian goddess of
Glossary
crushed rocks, bound
together with lime and mud
opus incertum: building
technique in which the
structure was made up of two
outer beds of medium-sized
stonesall the same kind or
mixedand filled with opus
caementicium*
opus latericium: building
technique with a core of opus
caementicium* and a facing
made of tiles or bricks of
different sizes laid in regular,
overlapping rows
opus quadratum: building
technique in which large
square blocks were laid in
regular ashlar courses, without
mortar
opus reticulatum: building
technique with a core of opus
caementicium*, covered with
small pyramidal blocks
arranged with their points
embedded in the wall and
exposed square bases forming
a net-like diagonal pattern
peristyle: garden surrounded
by a colonnade of porticos
pulvinar: architectural
element atop a capital, acting
as a support and occasionally
decorated
second style: painted wall
decoration (early 1st century
BC - 20 BC), also known as
architectural, which depicts
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Archeologica of
Pompeii.
Zelig
SAPES
Luciano Romano
Eidos Longobardi
Castellammare di Stabia
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translations Studio Essepi, Milan